'Actors, Roles & Drama'
- Joseph Smith was right
- Jesus, like Abraham, takes the role of the Throne Bearer
- The Melchizedek King tradition is about Jesus Christ
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all right so then in Chapter five we go
to verse one here says for every high
priest taken from among men is ordained
or appointed ordained we use the term
ordained for men in these in things
pertaining to God
so Melchizedek Priesthood right again
the ironic priesthood is for temporal
things the Melchizedek Priesthood is for
the things of God or spiritual things
that he may offer both gifts and
sacrifices for sins but sure but we
could be talking about the Melchizedek
priesthood being able to function well
as both with the gifts which would be
healing and things from the Melchizedek
priesthood in those ordinances and
sacrifices for sin which might be things
that would be more from the ironic
priesthood and in verse four we have
something that we understand in the LDS
Church about priesthood and authority it
says and no man taketh this honor unto
himself but he that is called of God as
was Aaron would go back to Leviticus and
get an outline of how Aaron was called
and we have that understanding that you
have to be called of God and that comes
through priesthood authority that
doesn't just come through hey I think I
ought to do this that's how most of the
Christian world operates that hey I was
called to do this because I felt that
need we don't deny revelation or
personal revelation but we do believe
that for the Offices of priesthood and
for leading in congregation etc that you
have to have the laying on of hands and
that you have to have a direct line of
priesthood authority for that and then
in verse 5 we get another nugget here
about the son of God it says so also
Christ glorified not himself to be made
and high priest but he that said unto
Him thou art my son today I have
begotten thee
so this is a reference back to Psalm 2:7
again talking about a begotten son this
is about the temple drama this is about
the temple that's what the Psalms are
about and here just like in Psalm 110 we
have here a reference to thou art my son
today I have begotten thee this is a
function of the drama this is Jesus
stepping into that role in us
understanding that that's who he is
the Mallick isn't a king and in verse 6
as he saith also in another place this
is in Psalm 110 thou art a priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek
now sometimes even within LDS
scholarship I think we get this idea
that the reason it's forever is because
Jesus doesn't have a lineage of
priesthood which I don't know if that's
true or not I mean was he not ordained
did he not need to be ordained I don't
know if there's been something that has
been stated about that by Joseph Smith
Brigham Young or another
president of the Church of the Prophet
that would be considered doctrine but
that's not what it means what it means
is that see the Aaronic priesthood only
came through lineage you had to be a
Levite to be able to have the priesthood
and you had to be specifically a son of
Aaron a descendant of Aaron Aaron was a
Levite so as Moses you had to be a
descendant of Aaron to be a full-fledged
priest so we're getting a distinction
here from the author saying no the
Melchizedek Priesthood does not come
through lineage that would be a temporal
thing the Melchizedek priesthood is about
eternal things about spiritual things so
you're a priest forever with this or you
are an eternal priest so to speak and
then in 7 & 8 something very interesting
happens and this is this is so rich for
temple imagery and drama right here some
LDS scholars that I've read will they'll
bring up that shows us Smith talks about
this differently verses 7 and 8
but they still talk about this as being
Christ and it kind of sounds like it is
but there's a really important reason to
know that the seven and eight do not
refer to Christ so let's read these two
verses here real quick and see who this
should be or who it sounds like first
seven who in the days of his flesh when
he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and
tears unto him that was able to save him
from death and was heard in that he
feared or he was heard because he
reverenced God he humbled himself he
respected God verse eight though he were
a son yet learned he obedience by the
things which he suffered so just as we
had just heard about Jesus was tempted
and it was important that that was
stated in the last chapter and the
author wanted us to understand that that
he was tempted and that he can succor us
because he knows what we're going
through but this is not about Jesus
Joseph Smith and the Joseph Smith
translation puts a parentheses on these
two verses and says this is Melchizedek
and here's why that's important if we
read through this and understand that
what they're talking about here they
refer to the son or a son first aid
though he were a son he obeyed he
suffered he cried with his prayer so
what are we talking about we're talking
about Melchizedek and the citizens of
Salem and him being a king and the
reason is under it's important to
understand that is because again this is
about the temple drama built around the
tradition of Melchizedek and Jesus
stepping into that role sitting on that
Melchizedek Davidic King throne he's
playing he's fitting into that role
he is that role but he's fitting into
the role of the drama here as the Moloch
is it a king
so we know from other writings that
Melchizedek took a wicked City which was
Salem and helped convert all of them
through his prayers his supplication his
priesthood power and we're told there
was no greater than Melchizedek no
greater faith than Melchizedek and so he
supplicated and he prayed and he
suffered for the citizens of Salem which
is Jerusalem before it was Jerusalem and
he was called a son right because he sat
on the throne of God because of the
temple drama that's what this is all
built around so no it's not Christ and
you don't have to make it be Christ here
I would probably follow Joseph Smith
here and say look this is about the role
of the Melchizedek king who in the drama
is the servant and he suffers for
everyone around him just like King
Benjamin that is exactly what that is
referring to in the Book of Mormon it's
exactly what it's referring to he is the
servant of those around him we talked
about how he was a great king because he
served his people well understand that's
a ritual he probably did but we're
talking about ritual here with King
Benjamin I don't think there's any doubt
of that that's how I see it so 7
& 8 refer to Melchizedek / Joseph Smith
okay so in verse 9 then it say this is
where many people think well this has to
be Christ right it has to be because
here verse 9 says and being made perfect
he became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey Him
well that's certainly Christ but if the
king is becomes the son and is the
begotten one and is sitting on the
throne of God and comes through the veil
well he's also acting as Jehovah that is
Jesus Christ so in verse 9 all this is
is a continuation of that role so you're
seeing this mixture here
of again facsimile three who's being
placed in as Osiris and sitting on the
throne of God well in this case its
Christ himself that would go in and fit
into that role but he's fitting into a
role under a tradition of Melchizedek so
I hope that I'm explaining that properly
so you understand that the tradition
is built primarily on Jesus Christ and
who he is but the Melchizedek Davidic
kings including Melchizedek through a
temple drama acted as Jehovah and the
temple king but they acted also as
Jehovah as who we know of as Jesus
Christ and so Joseph Smith showing us
this here to me is a perfect example of
the drama of Temple imagery and drama it
looks like it has to be Christ well in a
sense it is it's the role of Christ but
that role is coming through a long
tradition of a Melchizedek and Davidic
King who's acted as Jesus Christ were
acted as Jehovah verse 10 called of God
and high priest after the order of
Melchizedek so we can see this all kind
of fitting together here and then in
chapter 6 we have here starting in verse
1 therefore leaving the principles of
the doctrine of Christ let us go on unto
perfection now Joseph Smith says not
leaving the principles of the doctrine
of Christ let us go on unto perfection
perfection is moving on through the veil
into the holy of Holy's into his rest
not laying again the foundation of
repentance and dead works and faith
toward God so we're not backing up into
going back into the repentance and dead
works what we're doing here is we're
talking again about hey this is what the
Melchizedek and Davidic King did they
went through the veil they were begotten
of God they were became sons and our
daughters of God which is a title
and moved into perfection by sitting on
the throne of God they went into
exaltation and going down to verse 12
then we hear that ye be not slothful but
followers of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises again the
promises the oath the rest God's rest is
all the same thing right and here again
we have the coupling of faith pistis
with the promises so having that faith
in Jesus Christ is what brings us to the
promises or to the promised land and
then we get basically the oath and
covenant of the priests of the promise
right here same things we're gonna see
in section 84 more or less starting in
13 for when God made promise to Abraham
because he could swear by no greater he
swore by himself saying surely blessing
I will bless thee and multiplying I will
multiply thee and so after he had
patiently endured gone through all the
works during that time not having Isaac
for that a very long time he obtained
the promise so we went through the works
he went through the trials he went
through the tribulations he made the
right decisions he retained his faith in
Christ
essentially in Jehovah and then was
blessed with the promise verse 16 and an
oath for confirmation is to them an
end of all strife the ironic priesthood
does not come with an oath or a promise
right that's understood right we have
it's like those wandering in the
wilderness there is no promise there's
no oath the oath is not from us the oath
is from our Heavenly Father and that
oath is the promise that oath is
exaltation and this is all about that
it's about the higher priesthood which
opens up the veil for us and allows us
to go into exaltation into the Holy of
Holies 17 wearing God willing more
abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his counsel
confirmed it by an oath he swears
to us he swears to us essentially an
oath that says I will do everything to
give you this opportunity to bless you
with this to be able to come back to me
and to share in the inheritance of all
that I have to be co-heirs with Christ
who is perfect the lower law does not
have that the law of Moses does not have
that only the monistic priest of the
Melchizedek law the higher law the oath
and covenant gives us that and then
something very interesting here that I
think we should understand we hear about
the what I call an attribute progression
of hope our faith hope and charity here
we've been talking about faith is
connected to the promise to exaltation
the faith in Jesus Christ and now here
we get hope tied to the Melchizedek
Priesthood as well it says here in 18
that by two immutable things in which it
is it was impossible for God to lie we
might have a strong consolation who have
fled for refuge to lay hold upon the
hope that is set before us so in other
words hope is given to us because of the
promise the hope is in what Jesus Christ
provided the promise the oath of God
that we can have everything that we can
be co-heirs that we can be like him
that's what the hope is and the only way
we get that is first to have faith in
Jesus Christ and what he did if we do
that then we understand we can then move
to Hope which gives us a different life
it gives us a different view on
everything a hope of where we can go to
his rest back to the holy of holies back
to God to exaltation and that hope is
obviously future to us as we travel
through the works
the first six days until we can get into
that seventh day but having that hope
changes our entire lives it changes the
way we live it can change our priorities
it changes our spirit I believe so hope
is crucial and it is not the same as
faith hope requires faith in Jesus
Christ a true hope and faith in Jesus
Christ begets hope 19 which hope we have
as an anchor of the soul both sure and
steadfast and which entereth into that
within the fail there it is whether the
forerunner is for us entered even Jesus
he's the forerunner the first to do it
remember when he died and had not
resurrected yet but had borne all the
sins of the world and died what happened
to the veil of the temple in the Gospels
we see that either we show that his side
was pierced with a spear which would be
his flesh as the veil or we directly see
that the veil was rent why because he
was the forerunner he went through it
and he opened up the veil for all of us
to enter into his rest for all of us to
have the promise the door is wide open
for us so to speak if we choose to go
through the works the first six days to
end up in the seventh so again twenty
whether the forerunner is for us entered
even Jesus made and high priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek I'll talk
to you next time
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